Category: Featured Editorials

Context: Recently a study conducted by Duke University, USA and Central Groundwater Board of India has found widespread uranium contamination in groundwater from aquifers in 16 Indian states. What is groundwater? Ground water is the water that seeps through rocks and soil and is stored below the ground. Groundwater resource and Use in India- Fast… Continue reading Groundwater Contamination in India: An Overview

Context: Recently in Maharashtra, a state-wide ban on plastic products came into effect What are plastics? Plastics are non-biodegradable, synthetic polymers. They are made-up of long chain hydrocarbons with additives and can be moulded into finished products. These polymers are broken into monomers such as ethylene, propylene, vinyl, styrene and benzene etc. Finally these monomers… Continue reading Plastic Pollution in India: An Overview

Context There is a demand of inclusion of caste category in 2021 census. Need of caste census Our political system and courts are still using caste data from 1931 census. This does not address the change and requirement of present time. To make available authentic information regarding the socio economic condition  and education status of… Continue reading Caste Census – An analysis

Context: The Aam Admi Party has launched a campaign for full statehood for Delhi Constitutional Debate and Constitutional Provisions: There has been considerable debate over statehood issue of Delhi. Lala Deshbandhu Gupta advocated for statehood for Delhi However, the constituent assembly in the Constitution of India (1950) constituted four categories of states in the First… Continue reading Statehood for Delhi

Context RecentlyDoPT announced lateral entry for 10 identified posts on contract at the level of joint secretary. Civil service reform Civil service reforms aim at strengthening administrative capacity to perform core government functions and to raise the quality of service to population. Many experts are of the opinion that the bureaucratic system in India has… Continue reading Recent Civil Service Reform – An analysis

Context: World Refugee Day- June 20th Who is a refugee? A person who has been forced to flee his/her country because of persecution, war, or violence Other important terms: Migrant: Migrants are people who move to another place or country attracted by better life prospects. Asylum Seeker: Persons who seek the protection of the government… Continue reading India’s Refugee law and policy- An Analysis

Context: The Hindu reported that National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) give priority to foreign patients over Indian patients waiting for a donor heart transplant. What is organ donation? Organ donation is the donation of biological tissue or an organ of the human body, from a living or dead person to a living recipient… Continue reading Organ Donation in India: An Overview

Context Recently, Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) found that prohibition is making people of Bihar spend more on good clothes and food. Prohibition Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages, or a period of time during which such illegality was… Continue reading Liquor Prohibition – A critical Analysis

Context On June 8, two young men were lynched to death by a mob in karbi Anglong district of Assam What is mob lynching? Mob Lynching means killing of someone by a mob for an alleged offence without following any principles of jurisprudence or due process of law. A lynching is a majority way of… Continue reading Mob Lynching